Albert W. Aiken (1846–1894) was American actor and writer of plays and

dime novels The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term ''dime novel'' has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms, r ...

.The House of Beadle and Adams
Northern Illinois University Libraries, Retrieved 6 August 2020 He was a prolific writer of pulp fiction for

Beadle and Adams Erastus Flavel Beadle (September 9, 1821 – December 18, 1894) was an American printer and pioneer in publishing pulp fiction. Biography Erastus was born in Otsego County, New York, United States, in 1821, and had a brother, Irwin Pedro Be ...

.Pecek, Louis Georg
The Beadle Story Papers, 1870-1897
p. 52 (1959) His plays included ''The Witches of New York''.(8 November 1869)
A New Star
''Wheeling Daily Register'', p. 3, col. 3.(7 November 1872)
Albert W. Aiken
''Daily State Journal'' (Alexandria, Virginia), p. 1, col. 4. Aiken was the younger brother of

George Aiken George David Aiken (August 20, 1892November 19, 1984) was an American politician and horticulturist. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 64th governor of Vermont (1937–1941) before serving in the United States Senate for 34 years, ...

, best known for his popular adaptation of ''

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'' for the stage, and was also a cousin of the famous clown

George Fox George Fox (July 1624 – 13 January 1691) was an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social upheaval and ...

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The Brigand Captain, or The Prairie Pathfinder
(1877) (via archive.org)
Gold Dan, or Dick Talbot in Utah
(1898) (via archive.org) * 1846 births 1894 deaths American male stage actors 19th-century American male actors 19th-century American dramatists and playwrights Dime novelists {{US-theat-actor-1840s-stub